7. Arthur Jones
“Guidance is a
personal help
that is designed
to assist a
person to go
somewhere and
do something”.
8. Emery Stoops “Guidance is the
continuous process of
helping individual to
develop the maximum
of his capacity in the
direction of most
beneficial to himself
and to society”.
10. I. EDUCATIONAL NEEDS
Guidance as an Instrument for the Qualitative
Improvement Education
Expanding Educational Objectives
Solution of Educational Problems
Solving Discipline Problems
11. II. VOCATIONAL NEEDS
• Vocationalisation of Education and Guidance
• Guidance as an Instrument of National
Development
• Expanding Complexity of the World of Work
•
12. Increasing need for Man-power Planning
and Utilization
Occupational Awareness
Changes in the Conditions of Industry and
Labour
13. III. PERSONAL / PSYCHOLOGICAL NEEDS
Guidance is the Basic Need of Man
Educational and Social Aspirations
Psychological Problems
Satisfactory Adjustment
Proper Development of Personality
14. IV. SOCIAL NEEDS
Complex Nature of Society
Changed Family Contexts
Explosion of Population and Expansion in Human
Resources
Political Change and Extension of Democracy
Change in the Concept of Education
16. OBJECTIVES OF GUIDANCE
• To help individual to understand and accept the
positive and negative aspects of his personality,
interests, aptitudes, attitudes etc.
• Provide a wide choice and opportunities
• Help make adjustment in the new life situation.
17. • Help in facing the challenges of life and
manage tensions by realizing and accepting
the facts.
• Help in solving social and personal
problems and be able to adjust with oneself
and the environment.
18. AIMS OF GUIDANCE
• Exploring Self
• Determining Values
• Setting Goals
• Improving Efficiency
• Building Relationship
• Accepting Responsibility for the Future
19. PURPOSE OF GUIDANCE
• To enable the individual or person to be matured,
socially responsible, economically self-sufficient and
ultimately to be self-directing citizen, for that
necessary programmes are undertaken for his best
development.
• It enables the individual/person to take right
decision in each and every stage of his life by
overcoming the necessities and incorporating
the necessities.
20. To achieve of self-sufficiency in each and every
aspects of life, the individual/person is helped to
analyze his self clearly i.e. his strength, limitation,
interests, aptitudes, abilities, potentialities etc.
Guidance is organized with the help of different
services to provide realistic information about
potentialities of the individual and the opening of
the world of work in which he is best fitted for.
21. NATURE AND CHARACTERISTICS OF
GUIDANCE
It is a Process
It is a Continuous Process
It is apart from Instruction
Guidance is a process of Development rather than
Direction
Guidance fulfills some aims of Education
22. BASIC ASSUMPTIONS OF GUIDANCE
Race, colour and sex have little as no relation
to aptitude and abilities.
Many crises cannot be successfully met by
student without assistance.
The school is in a strategic position to give the
assistance needed.
23. • Variations within the individual are
significant.
• Abilities already existing in individual are
not usually specialized
24. BASIC PRINCIPLES OF GUIDANCE
• Principle of All-Round Development of the
Individual
• Principle of Human Uniqueness
• Principle of Holistic Development
25. • Principle of Cooperation
• Principle of Continuity
• Principle of Adjustment
• Principle of Individual Needs
26. • Principle of Expert Opinion
• Principle of Evaluation
• Principle of Responsibility
• Principle of Periodic Appraisal
27. • The focus of guidance is the individual and not his
problem.
• Guidance is not a direction. At the same time, it is
not thrusting somebody’s views on others.
Guidance is also not taking decisions for others.
Guidance is, in fact, an integrated, organized and
creative process.
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